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Homeland Security Interoperability More A Cultural Challenge, Cohen Says

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Monday, March 24th, 2008

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By Calvin Biesecker Achieving interoperability today among various first responders is not a matter of making different technologies work together but rather finding ways for different groups of responders to work out ways to communicate more efficiently and effectively, the Department of Homeland Security's technology chief said last week. "Interoperability is my number one challenge," Jay Cohen, under secretary for Science and Technology at DHS, said at the Navy League's annual Sea, Air and Space conference. "Ladies and gentlemen, this…

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